Buff Orpingtons are turning into my daughter’s favorite. Last year she raised 3 that turned out to be two cockerels and a pullet. She sold them all at fair (should sold one cockerel and the hen as a pair and they went for the highest amount out of any of the other birds at auction).
This year she has 6, sex of them is still to be determined. She is hoping though for at least a few hens and a roo so she can try breeding them for next year’s fair.
She usually has one or two of them with her at all times, but the other day I found her curled up in a chair watching a movie with all 6 of them curled up around her in the blanket folds/on her lap and her and the 6 birds were just as happy as can be lol they protested when she moved them back to the brooder. She said she likes the Orpingtons better then the Wyandottes, Sussex and Barnevelders that she is also raising this year so she said the other breeds don’t get inside the house time with her like the Orpingtons do. I kept having to evict the Orpingtons last year from inside the house and it looks like I get to do that again this year lol